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Run Like Crazy Run Like Hellby Jacques Tardi; adapted from the novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette and translated by Doug Headline 104-page black & white 7.5" x 10.75" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-620-1 Ships in: January 2015 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now After the teeth-rattling one-two punch of West Coast Blues and Like a Sniper Lining Up His Shot, Jacques Tardi makes a third appointment with ace crime writer Jean-Patrick Manchette for his wildest adaptation yet. Peter Hartog, a rich industrialist, hires a troubled young woman, Julie, straight out of the psychiatric asylum to which she has been consigned for several…

Love and Rockets Library (Palomar & Luba Book 5): Ofeliaby Gilbert Hernandez 256-page black & white 7.25" x 10.25" hardcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-806-9 Ships in: January 2015 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now In Ofelia, the sisters, the kids, and the cousins are all settled comfortably in California after leaving Palomar in Luba and Her Family. Luba and her cousin Ofelia’s relationship has always been fraught, but when Ofelia threatens to write a book about Luba, past memories, secrets, resentments, and pain resurface. Meanwhile, Luba’s children—genius Socorro, recently out-and-proud Doralís, and prickly Maricela—show that a talent for trouble may be…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: Cochlea & Eustachiaby Hans Rickheit 80-page full color 8" x 10" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-801-4 See Previews / Order Now Cochlea & Eustachia appear to be twin human girls, but this has yet to be confirmed. Their actions seem to be motivated less by curiosity than boredom and an inclination towards purposeless destruction. Any connate objective remains to be determined. They never stray apart from each other, out of an unspoken proclivity. Perhaps they keep together because they resemble each other; a mixture of vanity and comfort is the foundation of…

Displacementby Lucy Knisley 168-page full color 5.5" x 7.5" softcover • $19.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-810-6 Ships in: January 2015 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now New York Times best-selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic memoir series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over her ailing grandparents on a cruise. (The book's watercolors evoke the ocean that surrounds them.) In a book that is part graphic memoir, part travelogue, and part family history, Knisley not only tries to connect with her grandparents, but to reconcile their…

Michael Jordan: Bull on Paradeby Wilfred Santiago 200-page full color 5.75" x 7.5" hardcover • $24.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-711-6 Ships in: January 2015 (subject to change) — Pre-Order Now A thrilling, kinetic bio-epic about Michael "Air" Jordan, the greatest basketball player of all time and most influential athlete in history, from the creator of the acclaimed and best-selling 21: The Story of Roberto Clemente. This tour de force explores Jordan's public successes and private struggles, with the depth of Santiago's passion for his subject shining through on every full-color page. Jordan became a national celebrity at the age of 19, scoring the…

  Jacques Tardi fans: we know you've been waiting ever so patiently for us to import more Tardi books over from Europe. Freshly translated, beautifully designed, and packed with action, Run Like Crazy Run Like Hell is a gritty adaptation of French crime novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette's book, Ô Dingos! Ô Châteaux! And now here it is. These advance copies, with their eye-catching, bright orange spot gloss titles popping out against the dense black and white artwork of Jacques Tardi, are instant can't-put-it-down page turners. We'll have more previews soon to appease your hungry eyes (but, in the meantime, you can…

"Mini comics are like the wild west of the comics world—in this lo-fi, DIY format—it’s anything—and everything—goes." – Benn Ray, Atomic Books Treasury of Mini Comics Vol. 2edited by Michael Dowers 848-page black & white with some color 5" x 6.25" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-807-6 Due to arrive in 2-4 weeks. Click on the thumbnails for larger versions; get more info, see more previews, and pre-order your copy here: http://www.fantagraphics.com/treasuryofminicomics2

Scene 1: The man named Thompson waits in the shadows for his target to enter his bedroom, then kills the man silently. The job finished, he leaves. The very next morning, he meets a new client for a new job. Scene 2: A sleek black car pulls up to the entrance of the asylum. One Michael Hartog emerges from the car, there to pick up Julie Ballanger, his new nanny. During the drive to her new home, she is questioned by Mr. Hartog on what she knows of him. Thus it begins in the latest crime novel adaptation out of…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Complete Zap Comixby R. Crumb, Rick Griffin, Paul Mavrides, Victor Moscoso, Spain Rodriguez, Gilbert Shelton, Robert Williams, and S. Clay Wilson 920-page black & white with color 9.75" x 13.25" x 7" hardcover • $500.00ISBN: 978-1-60699-787-1 See Previews / Order Now There scarcely was an underground comics world before Robert Crumb's classic solo first issue of Zap in 1968. By Zap #2, he had begun assembling a Seven Samurai of the best, the fiercest, and the most stylistically diversified cartoonists to come out of the countercultural kiln. All of them…

Just arrived and shipping now from our mail-order department: The Late Child and Other Animalsby Marguerite Van Cook and James Romberger 180-page full color 8" x 10" hardcover • $29.99ISBN: 978-1-60699-789-5 See Previews / Order Now Hetty survives the bombing of Portsmouth by the Nazis in World War II, only to learn that her soldier husband — with whom she was in the process of adopting a young daughter — has been killed on the way back home from North Africa. She must then complete the adoption alone. A decade later, she gives birth to a bastard daughter, Marguerite. Now…